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Kara Swisher says that Twitter might start selling access to its “firehose” — the full stream of all public tweets from its tens of millions of users — to Google and Microsoft. Such companies, she says, might be willing to pay “several million dollars” for such a product.

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Yesterday’s news about the drop in consumer credit made sense to me: if people are saving more, that means they’re likely to be paying down their debts. But one thing jumped out at me in the official statistical release: it had figures going back to 2004 for credit-card interest rates, and the latest numbers are the highest of the lot.

There are two big, above-the-fold stories on the front page of today’s FT. One is the fact that, yes, Santander’s IPO of its Brazilian operations went according to schedule. And the other is headlined “Obama under fire over falling dollar”.